Wreck: Salaminia (probably) (Steam ship)
This is the information page about the shipwreck Salaminia (probably), the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 53 36.173 N,5 37.614 W (53.625166666667, -5.4926666666667)
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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English 🇬🇧, as they are prepared by the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) based on data from UKHO and the hydrographic services of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, among others. They include the known details of the wreck and the comments of the cartographers who have checked the position and condition of the wreck over time.
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Shipwreck details
Name: SALAMINIA (PROBABLY)
Length 98.5 meter, width: 14.3 meter, draught: 6.7, tonnage 3112 ton
Load: ballast
Cause: ex-trevilly. built in 1897 by j readhead & sons, south shields. owned at time of loss by a a embiricos, greece. two boilers, triple expansion engine of 278 nhp, single shaft. passage barrow-in-furness for barry. torpedoed by an unidentified german submarine. (sii).
Year of registration: 1918
Water depth above wreck: 97 meter, Height above seabed: 135 cm
Known since: 1918, last detected: 1983
Details measurements/cartography: 31.3.18 31.3.18 SUNK IN 533500N, 054000W. (A.P.KINGSTON). 31.3.18 31.3.18 POSN 533000N, 053900W. (I.D.S.A). PREVIOUSLY SHOWN ON CHARTS AS NDWPA IN 533230N, 053830W. (DATE NOT NOTED). H5141/53 14.8.53 H5141/53 14.8.53 INS AS NDWPA ON NC 1411. H5982/82 5.7.83 H5982/82 5.7.83 FF (SERIOUS DAMAGE) SHOWN IN 533620N, 053645W ON KINGFISHER TRAWLING PLOT C 22 [1983]. H4466/81 16.11.83 H4466/81 16.11.83 WK LOCATED IN 533610N, 053734W [OGB]. LEAST DEPTH 85MTRS. (HMS FOX HN 3.11.83). 22.6.78 22.6.78 AMEND TO USCPA 65MTRS. NC 44. H4466/81 29.2.84 H4466/81 29.2.84 EXAM'D 26.11.83 IN 533610N, 053733W [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 85 IN GEN DEPTH 97MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 1.5MTRS. DCS3 HT 10MTRS, LENGTH 80MTRS, BEAM 15MTRS. UPRIGHT AND INTACT. NO MASTS VISIBLE. ORIENTATED NW/SE. (HMS FOX, HI 95). NFA. [WGD] POSN: 5336.173N, 0537.614W.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office
Commentaar onderzoeker: UPRIGHT & INTACT, NO MASTS
Position: 53 36.173 N,5 37.614 W
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